... it says that 41 million US adults have used cocaine AT ONCE. Can you IMAGINE that party?

I don't know if it's a roast or a toast, but I feel Some Kind of Way™️ about Facebook memories showing me a post from well over a decade where my recently uncovered rare mental health disorder is absolutely sitting center stage, hiding in plain sight, and with the benefit of hindsight it's so obvious

For real, adding this to the Coda.

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Five stars to the sun shining so bright but ZERO stars to the 100 km/hr winds currently causing havoc outside and to my head. (Also every time it gets this windy, I ALWAYS think about "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"—one of the 12 VHS tapes that supplemented our 4 farmer vision TV channels.)

Got 30 minutes? Archive your AP!

I'm looking to commission an artist for some doodle-ish images a small personal project (AKA custom T-shirts with little inside jokes for my partner who isn't on bluesky and won't see this 🤫). Aesthetic: Cute bear(s) and some words. Recommendations, anyone?

Reposting with the full image because I kinda dislike the cropping bsky does with multiple images.

Map of Tu'narath, the City of Death - the Githyanki capital in the Astral Plane, built on the corpse of The One in the Void. Commissioned by @robertgreeve.bsky.social Schmincke Horadam watercolors on Fabriano Artistico paper.

I'm retranslating all of Homer's Odyssey into AAVE because I love using my Classics degree in fun ways. 🥰 towerofbasil.wordpress.com/afrodyssey-h...

Canada must wake up to the threat unfolding in Alberta. With the arrival of the Russian Internet Research Agency" Danielle Smith's disinformation dumpster fire is about to burst into a four-alarm fire. It will threaten Canada. I have been tracking this group for years. substack.com/home/post/p-...

God, it feels so good to finally, FINALLY be solidly in spring. Trees are getting leaves, early fruit trees are flowering, and I'm just about ready to start clearing the gardens of the dead stuff. This winter was exceedingly long and hard, and I feel like I can finally draw fresh air again. SPRING!

Sending extra love today to those of us who, for various reasons, had to be our own mothers.

Feeling smug because I'm pretty much ACING therapy right now. (Don't worry, I'm sure I will be appropriately humbled in the weeks to follow.)

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

This setting is gorgeous, and this art?! Stunning.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. 🧵

My schedule remains open for May and beyond! Scoop me up for some game writing! Or sensitivity consulting if you're feeling bold 😘

Not me suddenly remembering, right before I'm about to collapse as an exhausted "my disability has disabled me" puddle in bed for the next 18 hours... I never actually filed taxes and they're due in 4 hours. They're mostly complete, just need a few little additions and tweaks, and a final review

This isn’t hyperbole. Aaron is absolutely correct. What the separatists have done isn’t just illegal - they put every registered voter in Alberta at risk of identity fraud, stalking and harassment, scams …. My good lord what an awful day for this province.

Using sensitivity readers is not an excuse to have a team of writers that's almost exclusively white cis men. Hiring sensitivity readers is an important practice, but does not replace having an intentionally diverse team, especially in leadership and decision-making roles.

With just over 24 hours left in this bundle, I'd love to see us cross the $60,000 threshold, thus giving each of our charity partners $30,000 to help trans folks in Idaho!!! itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

A 45 minute power-tidy without mobility devices—because using them while cleaning up objects and carrying shit around would take too much concentration today—was an Extremely Very Unwise Why Would You Do That What Were You Thinking™️ decision for this ambulatory wheelchair user. 0/10 self. No stars.

you are invited to... treat yourself kindly with grace with hope and with a bit of sweetness and humor this week

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

Happy Morning to @uwotc-official.bsky.social 👏✨

I was the guest this week! You can watch the vod on twitch or wait for the podcast or YouTube on Monday

An extra special shout-out on this lesbian day of visibility to all the they/them, he/him, and neopronoun-using lesbians!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Listen, I continue to hold out hope that eventually I won't sit down with my therapy and start off our session with something like, "okay so this absolutely bonkers thing, that I absolutely didn't see coming, happened." Like, there will be a two-week without a landmark personal event soon, RIGHT?!

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

I can tell I'm in my migraine time because I haven't written a post in the last 2-3 weeks that didn't have a very silly (and obvious) typo. I stg I CAN write. Honest. I'll be out of this by this time next week (probably) and will be able to spell simple words again. Pinky promise.

How is Kindle's algorithm so bad? I mean, it sends me notifications for "new books by your favorite authors", which are books I've already read but in languages I don't know. And my first three recs for things to read next are books that aren't even released yet. It's, like, aughably terrible?!?

GUESS WHO PAINTED ASTARION FOR A T. KINGFISHER NOVEL

What a massive honor to work with @tkingfisher.com and co. on bringing Astarion's past to life--er, unlife! This book is a bloody, sexy, funny, horrifying romp (with a scene that will live in my brain til I die). Fangs to Eleonor Piteira for the cover and the RHW crew for making dreams come true!

EXCUSE ME WHAT?!? Fucking AMAZING!!! (If you haven't read T Kingfisher"s books before, you should get your nose into those books like yesterday. So so so good. One of my favorite writers.)

HOLY SHIT, Epic the Musical is getting developed into an ANIMATED MOVIE?!? Gahhh going to be LIVING FOR THIS for the foreseeable future!!!

One of my teens has a female health teacher who is a body builder, and is requiring students to calculate their BMI and write down everything they eat. Gee in a world where eating disorders are on the rise, how could this possibly go wrong?!?

Refresh your eyes! darebee.com/workouts/eye...

My fun fact about weed for 4/20 is that the Spanish term marijuana was widely adopted in the US as a strategy to racialize cannabis consumption as part of a racist anti-drug campaign, which is why modern cannabis users and producers avoid the term.

This is SO GOOD.

Jokers are wild... 🃏 Game Changer Season 8 premieres May 18th only on Dropout.

Well, I certainly won't be getting a lot of use out of this screenshot of my beloved munchkin @erikaishii.bsky.social from the new @gamechanger.dropout.tv s8 trailer that just dropped as a reaction image 😂🥰💜

I absolutely don't want to hear the age-old "not all men" from cis men right now (the sentiment is better demonstrated by having conversations about healthy vs toxic masculinity etc.) BUT I do find it an important phrase for me to remind myself I'm safe enough. AND important to pass onto my girls.

EVERYONE LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Reposting this because some of the comments about the Rape Academy, primarily from white women, are veering directly into this transandrophia. And given that my own province just talked legislation that says "women are so unsafe so we must make ciswomen-only bathrooms", the risk isn't theoretical.

✨generative ai is shit✨ get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

Just popping out of my little cave to remind people that having violent fantasies isn't the same as doing the violence. Having those thoughts and desires doesn't make you a bad person. Same goes for desiring or engaging in CNC kink. There's a whole playground of safe ground to explore this stuff.

This is apropos of nothing in particular, but I keep thinking we need to keep finding ways to celebrate folks taking even one step away from their current harmful views. Deconstructing any ideology happens one step at a time, and their new position might not be ours, but it's also not their old one.